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Mrs Docherty Positive Thought for the week: 5.6.20

Good morning. Wow, it is amazing that we are that the end of our first week in June. I hope that our theme of happiness has continued for you all throughout the week.

Happiness comes in so many forms and throughout the week I have been sharing ideas on how to promote positivity and support your children in having positive experiences in their day. I think that main message for the week has been that:

There has never been a time in our lives that makes this message more important as we have all sat down and really appreciated what we have. The most important thing to us is our family and friends in life as they are the constants for us. Other things will come and go but connections that we make stay a lifetime. This has certainly made us stop and think about the amazing connections we have formed and cemented as a school and the happiness and support this has given us.

So going into the weekend I have given you a poster that you can look at to help you remember what happiness really is and how it can be part of every day for us. I have also included a lnik so you can print the poster if you like.

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Have a great weekend filled with happiness and love,

Mrs Docherty

Mrs Keegan and Mrs Caskie’s Daily Update 5.6.20

Good morning boys and girls and Happy Friday. It is Mrs Docherty online for you this morning. I can’t believe we are at the end of another week already and you are all doing so well. I really hope you have had a good week even though the sunshine decided to go on a little holiday this week.

To start today I have included the link below for Peep and the Big Wide World: The Many Moons of Quack the duck.

http://peepandthebigwideworld.com/en/kids/videos/144/the-many-moons-of-quack-the-duck/

Can you learn anything about the moon from this little science programme? Who do you agree with?

As it is Friday we will spend today reviewing our learning and sharing our successes.

In Reading how did you get on with your reading for meaning. Were you able to find the answers and use information form the text to support your answers. Were there any questions that you had to use clues from the text to help you answer. Please use the answer sheet at the end of the pack to help you assess how you did.

In Writing please get a pink and green pencil or pen to help you identify your Success Criteria. Did you

Include paragraphs to separate your ideas
Use your senses to describe in more detail your walk
Did you use exciting openers to engage your reader?
If you did all of these can you please highlight all of your successes in pink and look for any areas you could improve by highlighting in green.
Remember to share your self- assessment of your writing on your One Note Profile.

Were you able to make equal groups using the 2 ,3, 4, 5 and even 10 times tables?

How did you do this? Did you make arrays or did you have another pictorial or concrete way to do this? You can share this on your One Note.

Using your fist to five share on your one note profile how you feel about sharing equally and how well you are doing with your times tables knowledge.

Have a great weekend everyone and please have fun. Remember to log back on for your new learning grid for next week.

Stay safe everyone,

Mrs Docherty

Mrs Wassell’s P3 Weekly Update 4.6.20

Good Morning P3,

I hope you are all well and enjoying your learning tasks this week. Today’s blog post looks a little bit different. Mrs Keegan, Mrs Caskie and I have made a little sway for you with some videos to support your learning tasks this week. Click on the arrows at the top right hand corner for full screen.

We would love to hear your pupil voice about what you would like on these sways. Please try to complete the form on the sway.

Have a great day.

Mrs Wassell

P3 Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan Thursday 4.6.20

Good morning Primary 3. Today’s blog post is a little different as we have created a Sway presentation for you. We’d love your feedback so don’t forget to answer the Pupil Voice question on the Sway to help us plan next week. You can access the Sway by clicking on the link below and use the button with the arrows to show it on full screen.

Or click here to access the Sway.

This week’s grid is below for you.

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Have a great day!

from Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

Mrs Docherty Health and Wellbeing Happiness Day 3: 4.6.20

Good morning everyone. Day 3 and we are continuing our happiness activities today with our final set of activities to do as a family. These will build upon our previous activities and will help us to focus on what and who is important to us and for us. In previous posts I’ve spoken about self-esteem and also sleep and our two activities today will link with these.

Our first activity today is to WAYS TO BE RESILIENT:

We have spoken about being resilient and how to support your child with this. One of our key messages was to speak with someone and to ask for help. Below is a little poster to help you have discussions with your child and some ideas on how to support your child if they are anxious or worried. I’ve also included the link below so you can print off the poster as part of your pack.

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Our final activity for this week is: HAPPY SLEEP HABITS

Sleep has been an important theme for us in lockdown and we have shared many wonderful resources from Sleep Scotland. Today’s tips support your child in achieving a good night’s sleep and a Happy Sleep. This in turn will lead to Happiness.

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As always thank you for taking part and sharing in our positivity blog posts and in particular our Week of Happiness.

We will finish the week tomorrow with our Positive Quote of the week.

Have a great day,

Mrs Docherty

Mrs Wassell’s P3 Daily Update 3.6.20

Good morning Primary 3!

How are you getting on with the tasks on your learning grid? Remember that you can visit Sumdog to work on your spelling and maths skills. The Sumdog challenges that we have set will help you to build on the same skills as the tasks in your grid.

Literacy

I know that we have lots of Harry Potter fans in Primary 3. Did you know that JK Rowling released a new book last week?? It is called ‘The Ickabog’. She will be releasing a few chapters at a time, completely free and accessible online, over the next 7 weeks or so.

To read The Ickabog, click here.

J.K. Rowling is also looking for children to illustrate her new book! She is running an illustration competition for the book for children aged 7-12. If you win, your illustrations could be printed in the book in November! There are details on The Ickabog website here.

Maths

Today we have some problems for you to solve. Send us an email or let us know in the comments section how you get on.

Non-Screen Challenge

Lego Zip Line

You will need string or wool for this task.

Using Lego or a small toy, create a zip line to help it travel across your garden/room. Can you make it go faster/slower? Have you got anything around the house you could use to make your zip line super long?

I’d love to see pictures of your zip line!

Mrs Wassell

Primary 3 Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan Wednesday 3.6.20

Good morning Primary 3!

Literacy

To read The Ickabog, click here.

Maths

Today we have some problems for you to solve. Send us an email or let us know in the comments section how you get on.

Non-Screen Challenge

Lego Zip Line

You will need string or wool for this task.

We’d love to see pictures of your zip line!

from Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

Mrs Docherty Health and Wellbeing Happiness Day 2: 3.6.20

Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I hope your week is going well and you are all managing to continue to make special memories along the way.

We are continuing our happiness activities today with some more special fun filled activities to do as a family.

Our first activity today is to GIVE A COMLPIMENT CARD:

This is a lovely activity and one which will not only make you feel good but also someone else feel good too. Compliments are a lovely way to connect with someone and show them admiration. Try out the little activity below and please let me know how you get on and if someone has paid you a compliment. I have also added a link below the picture if you would like to get the printable version to make a pack for all of this week’s activities.

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The second activity today is INTERVIEW A FRIEND:

In my previous posts I have spoken about friendships and the importance of these especially at this time. But how much do you really know about your friends? Finding out more about each other is a great way of building up friendships and here’s a little activity to help with this.

See if you can find out something new about your friend that you didn’t know before.

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Please try these activities out and as always let me know how you get on.

Have a wonderful day everyone and be happy,

Mrs Docherty

Mrs Wassell’s P3 Daily Update 2.6.20

Good Morning Primary 3. I hope you had a lovely day yesterday. How are you getting on with your weekly grid? I have posted the link below for easy access.

Core Grid Week 9 P3

Literacy

As part of your Literacy tasks this week you were asked to write a description of what you see, hear and smell when you were out a walk. Here is a short description of a walk I had to a waterfall beside my house. Hopefully it will give you some ideas for your story.

I see bubbling, rippling water and fluffy sheep. I hear rushing, cascading water over the rocks. I smell beautiful, colourful flowers.

See if you can think of 3 or 4 things for each sense and remember to use capital letters, full stops, exciting adjectives, conjunctions and challenge yourself to try and write in paragraphs. Good Luck!

Numeracy

We are looking at multiplication and division this week. Why don’t you play this game outside. Multiplication hopscotch. Challenge yourself to a game of hopscotch, multiplication hopscotch that is. Draw hopscotch squares number them 2 to 24 then get someone to ask you a multiplication sum from the 2 times table and see if you can hop to the answer. You can then change the numbers for another times table. Get some fresh air while skip counting and hopping!

Spanish Art

Click on the link below to hear some Spanish words and see how to make a Picasso mask.

https://youtu.be/zlpET4GWzus

Non- Screen Task

Get Building! You could build a lego model or a tower out of playing cards or anything else you may have in the house. You could take a picture of this and post it on your one note profiles.

Have a lovely day.

Mrs Wassell

Mrs Docherty Health and Wellbeing Happiness Day 1: 2.6.20

Good morning everyone. What an amazing spell of weather we have had bringing some happiness and sunshine to our lives. Our theme for this week is Happiness and so on this positive note we will share some feel-good ideas to try with family, friends and on your own. These will help you to explore what happiness looks like and how we can start our days on a happy note in the simplest of ways.

To start the most important thing is to ask ourselves is what makes us feel happy. Think of people, places and activities. There is no right or wrong answer as it is personal to each and everyone of us. You and your child can write these down or draw them in a little happiness journal. Now really think of the top three things that makes you feel happy. This is a great start for our happiness activities.

As we all know life can be busy and sometimes we don’t realise we have not stopped for a break or indeed had a break to stop and think. One way to help this is to start your day the mindful way. I have included an image below for you to help with helpful hints on how to do this. Instead of on your way to school or work at the minute we could use our daily walk as a way of being mindful about what we can see, hear and smell.

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Use your happiness journal to record some of the things you could see, feel, smell and hear when completing some of these activities. Did you notice something you have never noticed before, did you hear a familiar sound that you had taken for granted?

Let me know how you get on with this activity and over the coming days we will continue to explore more activities and ideas to help boost our happiness.

Have a lovely day,

Mrs Docherty